History 2013 - Cambridge University Press India

10 European history – 1000 – 1450
The Gothic Screen
Space, Sculpture, and
Community in the Cathedrals of
France and Germany, ca.1200–
1400
Jacqueline E. Jung
Yale University, Connecticut
At the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the
threshold between nave and sanctuary
was marked by the choir screen, a
structure of great complexity, grandeur
and beauty. Through analyses of their
architectural and sculptural components,
this book reveals how these furnishings,
far from being barricades or hindrances,
were vital vehicles of communication
and shapers of community within the
Christian church.
2013 279 x 216 mm 308pp
180 b/w illus. 30 colour illus.
978-1-107-02295-9 Hardback c. £60.00
Publication January 2013
www.cambridge.org/9781107022959
Land and Privilege
in Byzantium
The Institution of Pronoia
Mark C. Bartusis
Northern State University, South Dakota
The first comprehensive treatment
for over fifty years of the institution
of pronoia, the most common type of
privilege by which the emperor rewarded
subjects and financed the army during
the last few centuries of the Byzantine
Empire. Essential for those who wish to
understand Byzantine administration
and provincial life.
2012 247 x 174 mm 728pp
7 b/w illus. 7 maps 22 tables
978-1-107-00962-2 Hardback £100.00
www.cambridge.org/9781107009622
Heroes and Romans
in Twelfth-Century
Byzantium
The Material for History of
Nikephoros Bryennios
Leonora Neville
University of Wisconsin, Madison
This first book-length study of
Nikephoros Bryennios’ history of the
Byzantine Empire examines his use
of classical Roman constructions of
masculinity and honor. Important for
the study of medieval gender, nobility,
memory, historiography, rhetoric of
warfare and political and military history
of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
2012 228 x 152 mm 257pp
2 b/w illus. 2 tables
978-1-107-00945-5 Hardback £60.00
www.cambridge.org/9781107009455
The Medieval
Discovery of Nature
Steven A. Epstein
University of Kansas
This book examines the relationship
between humans and nature that
evolved in medieval Europe over the
course of a millennium. It analyzes
five themes found in medieval views
of nature – grafting, breeding mules,
original sin, property rights and disaster
– to understand what some medieval
people found in nature and what their
assumptions and beliefs kept them from
seeing.
2012 228 x 152 mm 217pp 1 b/w illus.
978-1-107-02645-2 Hardback £55.00
eBook available
www.cambridge.org/9781107026452
Venice
History of the Floating City
Joanne M. Ferraro
San Diego State University
Following Venice’s unique history from
its foundation, this book analyses the
city’s social, cultural, religious and
environmental history, as well as its
politics and economy. Joanne M. Ferraro
illuminates how Venice’s position at
the crossroads of Asian, European
and North African exchange networks
made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse
Mediterranean cultural centre.
‘This is the best book written to date
on the Venetian Republic … In the
future, when people want to learn
about Venice’s history, they’ll turn to
this book first.’
Library Journal
2012 228 x 152 mm 299pp
61 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 5 maps
978-0-521-88359-7 Hardback £18.99
www.cambridge.org/9780521883597
The Collapse of the
Eastern Mediterranean
Climate Change and the Decline
of the East, 950–1072
Ronnie Ellenblum
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
This provocative study argues that
many well-documented but apparently
disparate events of the tenth and
eleventh centuries – including drought
and famine in Egypt, mass migrations
in the steppes of central Asia, and
population decline in urban centres such
as Baghdad and Constantinople – were
triggered by climatic and ecological
change.
‘We have long been familiar with
the famines that struck Egypt in the
mid-1000s, but Ellenblum is the first
to show how these are part of a broad
regional pattern. This comprehensive
and clearly argued book advances
our understanding of the complex
political, social, and economic
processes of the late tenth and
eleventh century in SW Asia and, more
broadly, our capacity to link these
processes to those underway in other
parts of Eurasia.’
Stephen Humphreys, University of California,
Santa Barbara
2012 228 x 152 mm 282pp
22 maps 2 tables
978-1-107-02335-2 Hardback £60.00
eBook available
www.cambridge.org/9781107023352
The Emperor and
the World
Exotic Elements and the Imaging
of Middle Byzantine Imperial
Power, Ninth to Thirteenth
Centuries C.E.
Alicia Walker
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
In this book, Alicia Walker shows
how the visual articulation of middle
Byzantine imperial power not only
maintained an artistic vocabulary
inherited from Greco-Roman and Judeo-
Christian traditions, but also innovated
on these precedents by strategically
incorporating styles and forms from
contemporary foreign cultures,
specifically the Sasanian, Chinese and
Islamic worlds.
2012 253 x 215 mm 288pp 71 b/w illus.
978-1-107-00477-1 Hardback £60.00
www.cambridge.org/9781107004771
Intellectual Culture
in Medieval Paris
Theologians and the University,
c.1100–1330
Ian P. Wei
University of Bristol
This book explores the ideas of
theologians at the medieval University
of Paris and their attempts to shape
society. Investigating their views
on money, marriage and sex, Ian
Wei reveals the complexity of what
theologians had to say about the
world around them, and the increasing
challenges to their authority.
‘This book is a major contribution to
the intellectual history of the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries. It is full
of new and exciting observations,
engagingly written in a manner that is
accessible to general readers with an
interest in medieval culture as well as
specialists.’
William J. Courtenay, Hilldale Professor and
Charles Homer Haskins Professor Emeritus of
History, University of Wisconsin, Madison